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What year was basketball invented?
A. 1809
B. 1857
C. 1891
D. 1900
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C. 1891

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What does the term 'mudslinging' mean?
A. praising your opponent
B. praising yourself
C. slandering your opponent
D. slandering yourself
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C. slandering your opponent

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What is the form of entertainment America got from the French?
A. amusement parks
B. football
C. vaudeville
D. baseball
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C. vaudeville

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Who was the King of Ragtime?
A. Lester Frank Ward
B. Edward Bellamy
C. Charles Darwin
D. Scott Joplin
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D. Scott Joplin

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What term is used for the tactic to remind people who "party of secession" was?
A. the Davis effect
B. party of morality
C. waving the bloody shirt
D. beer Sundays
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C. waving the bloody shirt

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Where did the term 'Jim Crow' come from?
A. an old cotton picking song
B. a song and dance performed in blackface
C. a puppet show
D. Uncle Tom's Cabin
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B. a song and dance performed in blackface

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What was the Wilmington Insurrection in response to? 
A. electoral control
B. education
C. attempts of integration
D. a newspaper article
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A. electoral control

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What did the Mississippi Plan segregate?
A. private schools
B. public facilities
C. churches
D. assemblies
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B. public facilities

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What sport was popular during this time period?
A. basketball
B. baseball
C. football
D. all the above
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D. all the above

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What was the main way African Americans were killed in mobs?
A. shootings
B. stoning
C. lynching
D. they weren't killed in mobs
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C. lynching

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